Andre Dubus III

As eloquent in person as in writing, Andre Dubus III speaks to audiences about the
path that led him to become a writer—one that pulled him out of a life of violence
and allowed him to find his voice through the arts.

Andre Dubus III grew up in mill towns on the Merrimack River along the Massachusetts-New
Hampshire border. He began writing fiction at age 22, just a few months after graduating
from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in sociology. He is
the author of six books, three of which were New York Times bestsellers: House of
Sand and Fog, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Garden of Last Days (soon to be
a major motion picture); and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and
a New York Times Editors Choice. His most recent book, Dirty Love—a collection of
four short novellas—was chosen as a Notable Book and Editors' Choice from the New
York Times, a Notable Fiction from The Washington Post, and a Kirkus Starred Best
Book of 2013. His other titles are The Cage Keeper and Other Stories and Bluesman.

Adapted into an Academy Award-nominated motion picture starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer
Connelly and published in 20 languages, House of Sand and Fog was a #1 New York Times
bestseller, a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, and Booksense Book of the Year, and an Oprah Book Club Selection. His
memoir Townie is a popular choice for First Year Experience reads on campuses. In
the words of author Richard Russo: "I've never read a better or more serious meditation
on violence, its sources, consequences, and, especially, its terrifying pleasures
than Townie. It's a brutal and, yes, thrilling memoir that sheds real light on the
creative process of two of our best writers, Andre Dubus III and his famous, much
revered father. You'll never read the work of either man in quite the same way afterward.
You may not view the world in quite the same way either." And Ann Hood proclaimed:
"Growing up in hardscrabble old mill towns, Dubus learned to fight and survive and
ultimately to find his own glorious voice. Townie celebrates that voice as Dubus finds
his redemptive place in the world at last."

Through the years Dubus worked as bartender, office cleaner, and halfway house counselor,
self-employed carpenter, college writing teacher, and for six months worked as an
assistant to a private investigator/bounty hunter. He teaches full-time at the University
of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern
dancer, and their three children.